• In the Flat Field

    Woke up early yesterday, anxious to get out on the trail . . . and immediately went back to sleep. Heavy fog and ominous rain clouds forced us to change our plans. Though I love hiking in the mist, we didn’t want to take a chance on being caught in the rain, and we didn’t…

  • Telegram Sam

    Three geeky things I’m excited about: Using apt-rpm, I sucessfully upgraded KDE to 3.1 without breaking anything. My pal Russ built a nifty website called blinktag. I had a submission accepted at Slashdot on Friday! Now, if I could just get my lan browsing working, and convince all three of my machines to see (and…

  • Advice to my 12 year-old self

    I read at Slashdot a great question: “What advice would you give your 12 year-old self?” Here’s mine: Dear 12 year-old self, Your life is about to be forever changed. You don’t know it now, but in three years, you’re going to be in millions of households world-wide. Everywhere you go, people are going to…

  • Stream

    Off the top of my head, without any editing, a stream a consciousness: Man, I really want to write, but I am just out of ideas. It’s not that I’m “blocked,” or anything, I just can’t think of anything to write about. So I’ll just make myself write, and maybe something interesting will come out….